
David Hemmings
Department: Acting
Biography
David Edward Leslie Hemmings (November 18, 1941 – December 3, 2003) was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer. He is noted for his role as the photographer in the drama mystery-thriller film Blowup (1966), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Early in his career, Hemmings was a boy soprano appearing in operatic roles. In his later acting career, he was known for his distinctive eyebrows and gravelly voice.
Known For

Gladiator
2000

Blow-Up
1966

Eye of the Devil
1966

Blessed
2004

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
2002

Barbarella
1968

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2003

Just a Gigolo
1978

Mean Machine
2001

Murder by Decree
1979

The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968

Juggernaut
1974

The Rainbow
1989

Last Orders
2001

Thirst
1979

Airwolf: The Movie
1984

The Heroin Busters
1977

Camelot
1967

Only When I Larf
1968

Thumbelina
1984

Islands in the Stream
1977

Alfred the Great
1969

Fragment of Fear
1970

The Wind of Change
1961

West 11
1963

The Squeeze
1977

The Turn of the Screw
1989

Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1980

The Painted Smile
1962

The Real Oliver Reed
2000

Unman, Wittering and Zigo
1971

Power Play
1978

Charlie Muffin
1979

The Big Screen
1973

A Mind to Murder
1995

The Walking Stick
1970

The Key to Rebecca
1985

The Long Day's Dying
1968

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
1974

Some People
1962

The System
1964

The Disappearance
1977

Man, Woman and Child
1983

Africa Shakes
1966

The Old Curiosity Shop
1975

Two Left Feet
1963

Auto Stop
1965

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1980

No Trees in the Street
1959

Simon Simon
1970

The Best House in London
1969

Voices
1973

Be My Guest
1965

Live It Up!
1963

The Love Machine
1971

Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
1988

Blow Up of 'Blow-Up'
2016

3 On a Match
1987

The Night We Called It a Day
2003

Blood Relatives
1978

The Counterfeit Man
1965

A Dream of Living
1975

Lenny Blue
2002

Calamity Jane
1984

Marlene
1984

The Swindle
1977

Equilibrium
2002

Gangs of New York
2002

Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
2002

Dear Antonioni
1995

The Prince and the Pauper
1977

Spy Game
2001

Play It Cool
1962

Sink the Bismarck!
1960

The Heart Within
1957

Harlequin
1980

Deep Red
1975

Romantic
2007

All Eyes on Sharon Tate
1966

Britten's Children
2004

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005

Harry's Hong Kong
1987

Horse Latitudes
1975

King's Rhapsody
1957

100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003

The Snow Queen
1985

The Christmas Messenger
1975

Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues
1985

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993

L.A. Law
1986

Airwolf
1984

Waking the Dead
2001

Nightmare Classics
1989

Masquerade
1983

Clouds of Glory
1978

Tales from the Crypt
1989

Out of the Unknown
1965

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982

Five Clues to Fortune
1957

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993

Murder in Mind
2001

George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011

Northern Exposure
1990

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Film '72
1971

Out of This World
1962

Drama 61-67
1961

The Vanishing Man
1997